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Third solo album released in 1976 by Neil Ardley, a British jazz pianist and arranger who led the ‘New Jazz Orchestra’, featuring top British jazz musicians such as Ian Kerr and Brian Smith of Necleus, as well as Third Ear Band's Paul Buckmaster of T…
Legendary progressive rock band Caterpillar, who left two albums to Vertigo. Rehearsal recordings from around 1970, before their album debut, have been unearthed and released on CD for the first time! Anna Meek sang vocals on the studio album, but Jo…
Debut album released in 1976 by Circus, one of the best bands of the Swiss progressive rock scene in the 1970s, when many groups were of a high standard. The band's style was based on the strength of King Crimson from 1972-74, with a jazz-rock approa…
Packaged in a glossy gatefold mini LP sleeve with obi, Japanese liner notes and cloth CD sleeve in a resealable clear plastic sleeve. Remastered by Manuel Göttsching. Ash Ra Tempel's second album, Schwingungen is a psychedelic classic that has influe…
Jinya Disc presents a live concert by New Direction. The album includes the last performance of Action Direct and the last performance of Takayanagi's life. In other words, it is Masayuki Takayanagi's "remaining work". An astounding force set free u…
2023 Repress American composer and multi-instrumentalist Alvin Curran has remained one of the great emblems of experimental music for the last half-century. In 1966, along with Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum, Curran co-founded Musica Elettro…
A Jazzy Profile of Jojo is composed of standard jazz masterpieces interpreted by Masayuki Takayanagi. It was recorded in March 1970 immediately after the start of the New Direction (1969). Legendary recordings with Kaoru Abe such as "Dismantling Symp…
Double LP version. "Devotion, Muriel Grossmann's debut for Jack White's U.S.-based Third Man Records label, continues her musical evolution, arriving at a sound that wears inspirations transparently, but in practice, is markedly original holistic wor…
This work is an uncut recording of the second part of the regular concert vol.57 (September 24, 1984, at Shibuya Jean-Jean) of the new Direction Unit led by Masayuki Takayanagi. It is a performance in which Hiroshi Yamazaki participates as a percussi…
Another "The Disintegration of the Sympathetic". Masayuki Takayanagi and Kaoru Abe's 1970 studio live recording, 40 minutes of miracle! Miraculous discovery of Masayuki Takayanagi and Kaoru Abe's live studio recordings from 1970! A live studio perfor…
Masayuki Takayanagi's live solo performances recorded from 1984 Hokkaido Tour, selected and edited by Otomo Yoshihide; incredible electronics and guitar work from the pre-Action Direct freestyle improviser... "This is Takayanagi's live solo performan…
Masayukia Takayanagi, electric jazz guitar. Nobuyoshi Ino, contra bass. Hiroshi Yamazaki, drums. Recorded live at Yokohama Airegin on August 26, 1984. Remastering and remix by Yukio Kojima from Takayanagi's private tapes. Linernote (in Japanese) by K…
Jinya Disc presents Live at freedom by New Directions, recorded live on 25 April 1981 at Takasaki. The album includes 4 tracks performed by Masayuki Takayanagi - Guitar, and Hiroshi Yamazaki on drums.
Masayuki 'Jojo' Takayanagi was a Japanese jazz / …
Jinya Disc presents a live concert recorded to cassette tape on June 24, 1979 (afternoon set) at jazz club Taro, Tokyo. Mastered at Kojima Rokuon. The album includes 4 tracks performed by Masayuki Takayanagi - Guitar, Kenji Kosei - Electric Piano, Hi…
The Guitar Solo album was produced by Takeshi Fujii, the producer of the legendary jazz label "Three Blind Myth", in June 1981. Takayanagi responded to the request with "Lonely Woman" recorded in August 1982. As stated in the liner notes of this wor…
Jinya Disc presents a live concert by New Direction. The album includes 2 tracks performed by Masayuki Takayanagi - Guitar, and Kaoru Abe - Alto Saxophone. The first album track: Thursday / Gradually Projection, was recorded on June 18, 1970 at Tokyo…
A miraculous discovery! The complete live performance at "Inspiration & Power 14" at Shinjuku Art Theater in 1973. Uncut live performance of Masayuki Takayanagi's New Direction For The Arts Discography at "Inspiration & Power 14" held at the Shinjuku…
Digitally remastered edition of this 1974 album, a true holy-grail for Deep and Spiritual Jazz collectors around the world. This album was originally independently released to raise funds to combat the ongoing drought in the Sahel region of Africa (a…